Boeing employees: “Post at your own peril”

By the looks of it, at least a few of the readers who have commented on Andrea James’ story about Boeing’s surveillance of its employees — and the questions that raises about personal rights — are Boeing employees themselves.

One presumed employee said he has heard of workers slacking off and doesn’t blame the company. Another called companies “mini-tyrannies.” But most of the rest of the comments talk about Boeing in neutral terms, so that it’s hard to tell whether the authors work there or not. That might not mean much.

But then someone wrote this:

“Post here at your own peril.”

Up comes a mental picture of a Boeing employee — an “enterprise” investigator — leaned into her computer, our SoundOff board on her screen, her mouse scrolling down, looking for something suspicious.

And one of another worker, in another part of the company, writing a comment to the story in his mind because he is too afraid to post it online.